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hi gang, just joined here tonight,reall'y glad ive joined cause wanna learn how to tile proper. so reall'y looking forward to getting to no you lot.......cheers.:hurray:

OK, hi all Names Darron. Where do I start......??? Job: Bathroom removing bath and replacing with walk-in shower (cast stone shower tray NOT acrylic), replacing sink, pedestal, toilet pan, cistern. NO too big a job but my wife has decided that I sholud pull up the teak parquet flooring and...

Just wanted to say hello as I've just signed up after regularly using the very helpful advice that is on this site. Currently looking to seal a black limestone patio and have trialed LTP stone oil with LTP colour enhancer / sealer in a small area. It all worked well but I'm unsure how much...

Hello from croydon, well someone has to live here. not a tiler by trade but will be having a go at some diy tiling and asking some questions after getting some dodgy advice from one of those people who knows it all. lol.

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Hi all, my name is Clive. I'm interested in becoming a tiler and have joined this forum to learn as much as I can and hopefully make some great contacts in the business. I'm looking for a course in west sussex if anyone can help me. Either that or someone who would welcome an apprentice for a...

Hi :waving: I am new to this forum and new to tileing. I have only lust finished tileing my sisters bathroom and kitchen and I have to say I loved every second of it! I spent weeks going over youtube etc getting advice for correct preperation, tiles, adhesive, grout and tools. I know you guys...

Hi my name is steven am from just outside glasgow and i have been tiling for 17 years now.Just wanted to say hello to all the other fixers out there.

hi Im new to all this Im looking for serimisima tiles i think the line is bastioni and the colours are unicino, blasone, bastion, grifone we had to take a chimney down to make turning space for a wheelchair don't want to lift 27 metres of tiles if possible.

Hi guys, id just like to introduce myself... My name is Matt Carrott and i run a company Called MBC Multi Trade Services. I have been toying with this forum for a while now, and thought it'd be good to share a few of my experiences, whilst learning about a few of yours. Matt.

Hi all, This is my first post so apologies if this has been asked a hundred times! I have a small kitchen floor that I want to tile (red quarry tiles) along with underfloor heating mats. I was planning on sealing the concrete floor with pva, put some self levelling compound down, putting blue...

Hi Everyone, I've read the forum many times when I've been stuck for a bit of help so I thought I'd return the favour and join in. I'm a tiler and a brickie, and my main work is fitting bathrooms and kitchens with my plumbing partner and a couple of apprentices. Fave brands are Weber (don't like...

Hello all, stumbled across the forum whilst searching for some information on adhesives and thought i'd join, i'm 34 and have been in the building trade since i left school, it's truly all i know lol. In the last few years i have concentrated on tiling and have done quite a lot of full bathroom...

Hi all came across this forum on the net when lookinhg for some info so thought this would be the best place to ask my question... I re tiling a kitchen spash back which stretches across 3 walls underneath cupboards & behind the gas hob, I've stripped off the old tiles off the stud walls and...

Hi, Great forum :) I have only ever helped with tiling before.... 45x45 floor tiles. I am now about to tile my ensuite. I have 600x600 porcelain floor tiles. I think I will be OK with this. I have matching 600x300 wall tiles and I am a bit worried. From browsing topics I have more or less...

Hi.. am just redoing a 1930s house... found this site after struggling to tile a round window... thank goodness for Google!!!!.....

Hi All, New to the forums and hoping you guys can help me through what will be a good number of small tiling jobs over the next few weeks. Absalutely NO experience of tiling before, read a few articles, and watched some youtube stuff but was hoping you guys could give me much more specific...

I am looking to put underfloor heating in my ensuite which is approx 8ftx6ft and has a chip board floor. I am putting ceramic tiles down. I understand that I need to insulate the sub-floor but that's the extent of my knowledge on under floor heating. My Dad is doing the tiling but I'm after a...

Big hello to everybody.Im not a pro-tiler but someone looking to complete a tiling project.Following structural alterations i find the addidional tiles i need are no longer available-hoping i dont have to hack the lot off and start again. Hoping to find someone with some idears!

hello im a newbie i'm a 27 old engineer from carlisle and no novice to ceramic tiling but never touch porcelain tiles. ive got 600 x 300 porcelain tiles to fix in the bathroom (on the wall) wots the best way to do this im going to fix new plaster board (moisture resistant) to exsisting plaster...